Xiamen Christian Music And Xiamen History Culture

When the smoke of the Opium war was difussing in the 40's of 19 century, the Christian(protestant) missionaries have come to sermon in Xiamen. Xiamen thus became the first introduction of Christianity outside the canton city. At the same time as an important means and tools to preach, the Christian music also imported Xiamen and then took root and grew in the developing process of Xiamen city.Over the past one hundred years, after the operating of several generations of Chrisitians, Christianity become to a "native religion" from a "foreign religion". The Christian music developed and evolved in this beautiful land, and showing the quality of native, popular and international features, merged into the colourful social life of Xiamen city, became a beautiful scenic in the living music culture of Xiamen, also witnessed the course of development of Xiamen in modern times as an open city.This article select Zhushu Church as the focus of reserch which has a certain representation of Christian music of Xiamen. By studying different circumstances of the four characteristics of this church choir, As well as the status of sacred music in recent years to map the entire Christian music in the development of Xiamen. On this basis proposed some of the issues of Christian music in Xiamen during the development process, And expounded the interrelationship and influence between the Christian music and Xiamen culture in the modern development of Xiamen, then try to learn from one aspect of cultural and social changes of modern Xiamen.